should results from 1st run be redone ?
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terryt
should results from 1st run be redone ?
greetings people - I used my column unit for the 1st time. It looks like I had moderate success with it, but didn't really know what was happening. Now I'm wondering if I should rerun what I have. Its sitting at 60 - 72% right now. This is from a turbo mix - I was trying to get a decent neutral out of it. Would there be much to gain by running it through a second time ?
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Uncle Jesse
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is this the _very_ first run or did you run the still a few times to clean it out?
if it's not the _very_ first run then sure you can toss it back in. It will raise the proof of your wash and change the point at which your vapors start coming off which will teach you a practical lesson or two about distillation.
if it's not the _very_ first run then sure you can toss it back in. It will raise the proof of your wash and change the point at which your vapors start coming off which will teach you a practical lesson or two about distillation.
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terryt
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Since this is your first alcohol run, it might be better to chuck it. Ethanol is a powerful solvent and gets stuff that the water run left behind.
On successive runs, if it's supposed to be a neutral, then it can't hurt. Pot still spirits I'd be a bit more careful with.
Remember, this is a quality versus quantity art. If it tastes dirty, then by all means run it again even if ya lose a little bit in terms of volume.
On successive runs, if it's supposed to be a neutral, then it can't hurt. Pot still spirits I'd be a bit more careful with.
Remember, this is a quality versus quantity art. If it tastes dirty, then by all means run it again even if ya lose a little bit in terms of volume.
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Along with what BWR mentioned, if you are doing a pot run, and the results are far below what you expect, you can always dump the results into a run in a reflux column still. The column is designed to remove all the flavors (the good and the bad). If run right, it can clean up some pretty nasty stuff. Now (with more experience), about the only thing I run through my column is the nastiest of the heads and tails from my pot still runs. It gets cleaned up, and I end up with product. The amount of product is not as much as if I was running the whole mash through the column (the foreshots and heads can be pretty large on a cleanup run), but I get enough neutral for my needs.
Since you are just getting started, then simply get a container to hold your "bad" runs, and hold the worst of the heads / tails and collect them up (LABEL this container WELL, so it does not have any chance of getting drank, or tossed out). Then when you have a larger amount saved up, you can experiment, trying to extract the goodness out of it.
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Since you are just getting started, then simply get a container to hold your "bad" runs, and hold the worst of the heads / tails and collect them up (LABEL this container WELL, so it does not have any chance of getting drank, or tossed out). Then when you have a larger amount saved up, you can experiment, trying to extract the goodness out of it.
H.